Redneck Rampage Collection

Uh, another one of those 90s games that fail to manage to handle balance properly. This is one of the four well-known Build games. Well, starting with Duke Nukem 3D. This one is about rednecks, UFOs, brown and pro-anarchy song of a silly man. Good fun dumb. Well, would be. If it was done good. But boy, look at this core gameplay. A bit of unbalance in weapons, who needs ripsaw. As usual, hitscan ruin everything. Mostly having to do wtih space vixen which either throw avoidable projectiles or decide to near instakill you with their machine gun bust. The music are mostly loud songs that don't care about what goes on in-game, even booming out when the ending is playing. And the worst of all, level design. Look, I really like odie FPS levels. Well, starting with Doom, Wolf3D ones are too simplistic for me, I wish for higher level architecture art. I like "mazes" that make you remember a bit and make you explore. But here, well, I get no satisfaction because they go stupid. Keys that are so tiny that you can barely see. Cracks in walls that you barely see. Buttons that are placed in illogical places and aren't fun to search for. For example, the one in the sewers where I had to get into small room thing, look back and look up HIGH to see it in order to shoot at it. Imagine working there. Usually good level designers use keys in order to help players understand where to go next, when you have to go somewhere far in a level. Here... well, a button can do anything, open a door in who knows where. At least expansions are better designed than this. I had to use walkthrough with original. For expansions, well, they are still oldschool and mazey and you may have to do something silly and search but at least I didn't have to use walkthrough, just my experience in this genre. But eh, it's still not that amazing or fun. Still quickscamming. Cute jackalopes tho. I used a launcher for it, off Internet. In Rides Again press F4 and activate music. The Ruins has glitched door too.

I remember playing this back in the 90's and I remember not liking it much. Still, I love 90's first person shooters, so I thought it seemed like a lot of content for a small price - and it is. Problem is, it really is awful from top to bottom, all of it. The music is shit, the sound effects are low quality and repetitive. Moronic sense of humor, bad controls, non-existent collision detection, bad balance between weapons and enemies, ugly textures and even uglier enemy designs. On top of that, the weapons are almost all a terrible idea and the convoluted level design is some of the worst you will ever see. I honestly cant say one good thing about this game.

Kinda wish I hadn't played it as an adult

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People who give this game 5 star reviews are either wearing thick nostalgia glasses, or aren't playing the same game. It has a lot of charm and some great art design, but that can't save what is inherently a bad game. This is a horribly dated, buggy, sloppy shooter. Redneck Rampage was never that good to begin with and it doesn't hold up by today's standards in the slightest. If you're after a good old school shooter, go play Blood, Duke3d or Shadow Warrior.